BRAKKE April 2021

Department of History (614) 292-2674 The Ohio State University [email protected] 230 Annie & John Glenn Ave. 106 Dulles Hall Columbus OH 43210-1367

Academic Appointments (Permanent)

Joe R. Engle Chair in the History of Christianity and Professor of History, The Ohio State University (2012– ) Courtesy Professor in Classics (2018– )

Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University (2004–2012) Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies (2008–2012) Adjunct Professor of History (2004–2012) Chair, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University (2006–2011) Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University (1999–2004) Adjunct Associate Professor of History (2002–2004) Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University (1993–1999)

Academic Appointments (Visiting)

Croghan Bicentennial Visiting Professor of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, Williams College (Autumn 2015) Visiting Professor of the History of Christianity, University of Chicago Divinity School (Spring 2012) Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN (1992–1993)

Teaching Areas

Primary: Ancient Christianity (New Testament through 600 C.E.) Secondary: History of Christianity, Late Antiquity, Study of Religion

Education

Ph.D., Religious Studies, , 1992 M.A., M.Phil., Religious Studies, Yale University, 1987, 1989 M.Div., Harvard Divinity School, 1986 B.A., with highest distinction, English, University of Virginia, 1983

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Select Grants and Fellowships

(Team Project) National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Edition Award: Critical Edition of the Works of Shenoute, Andrew Crislip, Principal Investigator (2007–2010) Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (2002–2-03, Resumed 2008, 2010): Institut für Ägyptologie und Koptologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers (1999–2000) American Council of Learned Societies Junior Fellowship (1999–2000)

PUBLICATIONS Refereed items are marked with (*).

Books: Monographs The : A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Anchor Yale Bible 45. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, in press (2022) (*). The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010 (*). Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2011. Spanish translation: Los Gnósticos: Mito, ritual y diversidad en el cristianismo primitivo. Trans. Francisco J. Molina de la Torre. Biblioteca de estudios bíblicos 140. Salamanca: Ediciones Sígueme, 2013. French translation: Les Gnostiques: Mythe, ritual et diversité au temps du christianisme primitif. Trans. Marie Chuvin. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2019. Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006 (*). Chapter 3 translated into French and published as “Le Gnostique. Évagre le Pontique.” Collectanea Cisterciensia 71 (2009): 188–222. Athanasius and the Politics of Asceticism. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 (*). Reprinted in paper as Athanasius and Asceticism. Baltimore/London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Books: Critical Editions and/or Translations of Ancient Works The Gnostic Scriptures. Translated with annotations and introductions by . Second edition with additions and revisions by David Brakke. Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021 (*). Vita: David Brakke, page 3

Shenoute the Great. Selected Discourses of Shenoute the Great: Community, Theology, and Social Conflict in Late Antique Egypt. Translated with introductions by David Brakke and Andrew Crislip. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2015 (*). Evagrius of Pontus. Talking Back: A Monastic Handbook for Combating Demons. Translation and introduction by David Brakke. Cistercian Studies 229. Trappist, Ky.: Cistercian Publications; Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2009 (*). Pseudo-Athanasius. On Virginity. 2 vols. Critical edition of Syriac text, translation, and introduction by David Brakke. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 592–593 (Scriptores Syri 232–233). Leuven: Peeters, 2002 (*).

Books: Edited Volumes From Gnostics to Monastics: Studies in Coptic and Early Christianity in Honor of Bentley Layton. Co-editor with Stephen J. Davis and . Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 263. Leuven: Peeters, 2017. Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity. Co-editor with Deliyannis and Edward Watts. London: Ashgate, 2012 (*). Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation: Discursive Fights over Religious Traditions in Antiquity. Co-editor with Anders-Christian Jacobsen and Jörg Ulrich. Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity 11. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2012. Critique and Apologetics: Jews, Christians and Pagans in Antiquity. Co-Editor with Anders-Christian Jacobsen and Jörg Ulrich. Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity 4. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2009. Beyond “Reception”: Mutual Influences between Antique Religion, Judaism, and Early Christianity. Co-Editor with Anders-Christian Jacobsen and Jörg Ulrich. Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity 1. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2006. Religion and the Self in Antiquity. Co-Editor with Michael L. Satlow and Steven Weitzman. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005 (*). Reading in Christian Communities: Essays on Interpretation in the Early Church. Co–Editor with Charles A. Bobertz. Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity 14. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002 (*).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters “Cursing Monks: The Early Monastic Context of Two Prayers for Justice from Egypt.” Studia Patristica, in press (*). “What Difference Does the Gospel of Judas Make?” In The Discoveries of Manuscripts from Late Antiquity: Their Impact on Patristic Studies and the Contemporary World (Conference Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Patristic Studies). Ed. Patricia Ciner and Alyson Nunez. Turnhout: Brepols, in press (expected 2021). Vita: David Brakke, page 4

“Research and Publications in Egyptian Monasticism, 2012–2016.” In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Congress of Coptic Studies, Claremont, July 25–30, 2016. Ed. Hany Takla. Orientialia Lovaniensia Analecta. Leuven: Peeters, in press. “Holy Men and Women of the Desert.” In The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism, 35–50. Ed. Bernice M. Kaczynski, with Thomas Sullivan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. “Athanasius in Alexandria.” In Christianity and Monasticism in Alexandria and the Egyptian Deserts, 23–32. Ed. Gawdat Gabra and Hany N. Takla. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2020. “‘In the Midst of the Children’: A Proposed Reading of Gospel of Judas 33:18– 21.” Journal of Coptic Studies 22 (2020): 45–67 (*). “Heterodoxy and Monasticism around the Mediterranean Sea.” In The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West, 1:128–143. Ed. Alison I. Beach and Isabelle Cochelin. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2020 (*). “Gnostics and their Critics.” In The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Biblical Interpretation, 383–398. Ed. Paul M. Blowers and Peter W. Martens. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019 (*). “The Gospel of Judas and the End of Sethian .” In Envisioning God in the Humanities: Essays on Christianity, Judaism, and Ancient Religion in Honor of Melissa Harl Sellew, 133–152. Edited by Courtney J. P. Friesen. Westar Seminar on God and the Human Future. Eugene, Or.: Cascade Books, 2018. “Coptic.” In A Companion to Late Antique Literature, 61–74. Ed. Scott McGill and Edward Watts. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018 (*). “Valentinians and their Demons: Fate, Seduction, and Deception in the Quest for Virtue.” In From Gnostics to Monastics: Studies in Coptic and Early Christianity in Honor of Bentley Layton (see above), 13–27. “The Relationship between the Monks of Northern Egypt and the of the Egyptian Church.” In Christianity and Monasticism in Northern Egypt: Beni Suef, Giza, and the Nile Delta, 11–20. Ed. Gawdat Gabra and Hany Takla. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2017. “Pseudonymity, Gnosis, and the Self in Gnostic Literature.” Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies 2 (2017): 194–211 (*). “Early Christian Lies and the Lying Liars Who Wrote Them: Bart Ehrman’s Forgery and Counterforgery.” Journal of Religion 96 (2016): 378–390. “Shenoute and the Jews.” In Coptic Society, Literature and Religion from Late Antiquity to Modern Times: Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Rome, September 17th–22nd, 2012, 945–952. Ed. P. Buzi, A. Camplani, and F. Contardi. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. Leuven: Peeters, 2016 (*). Vita: David Brakke, page 5

“Macarius’s Quest and Ours: Literary Sources for Early Monasticism.” Cistercian Studies Quarterly 48 (2013): 239–251. “Reading the New Testament and Transforming the Self in Evagrius of Pontus.” In Asceticism and Exegesis in Early Christianity: The Reception of New Testament Texts in Ancient Ascetic Discourses, 284–299. Ed. Hans-Ulrich Weidemann. Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus/Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments 101. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2013. “Scriptural Practices in Early Christianity: Towards a New History of the New Testament Canon.” In Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation: Discursive Fights over Religious Traditions in Antiquity (see above), 263–280. “Mystery and Secrecy in the Egyptian Desert: Esotericism and Evagrius of Pontus.” In Mystery and Secrecy in the Nag Hammadi Collection and Other Ancient Literature: Ideas and Practices, 205–219. Ed. Christian H. Bull, Liv Ingeborg Lied, and John D. Turner. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 76. Leiden: Brill, 2011. “A New Fragment of Athanasius’s 39th Festal Letter: Heresy, Apocrypha, and the Canon.” Harvard Theological Review 103 (2010): 47–66 (*). “The Body as/at the Boundary of Gnosis.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 17 (2009): 195–214 (*). “The East (2): Egypt and Palestine.” In Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies, 344–363. Ed. Susan Ashbrook Harvey and David G. Hunter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. “Care for the Poor, Fear of Poverty, and Love of Money: Evagrius Ponticus on the Monk’s Economic Vulnerability.” In Wealth and Poverty in Early Christianity, 76–87. Ed. Susan Holman. Holy Cross Studies in Patristic Theology and History. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2008. “From Temple to Cell, From Gods to Demons: Pagan Temples in the Monastic Topography of Fourth-Century Egypt.” In From Temple to Church: Destruction and Renewal of Local Cultic Topography in Late Antiquity, 91–112. Ed. Johannes Hahn, Stephen Emmel, and Ulrich Gotter. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 163. Leiden: Brill, 2008. “Shenoute, Weber, and the Monastic : Ancient and Modern Articulations of Ascetic Authority.” In Foundations of Power and Conflicts of Authority in Late- Antique Monasticism: Proceedings of the International Seminar, Turin, December 2–4, 2004, 47–73. Ed. Alberto Camplani and Giovanni Filoramo. Orientalia Christiana Analecta 157. Leuven: Peeters, 2007. “Research and Publications in Egyptian Monasticism 2000–2004.” In Huitième congrès international d’études coptes (Paris 2004): I. Bilans et perspectives 2000–2004, 111–126. Ed. Anne Boud’hors and Denyse Vaillancourt. Cahiers de la Bibliothèque copte 15. Paris: De Boccard, 2006. “Origins and Authenticity: Studying the Reception of Greek and Roman Spiritual Traditions in Early Christian Monasticism.” In Beyond “Reception”: Mutual Vita: David Brakke, page 6

Influences between Antique Religion, Judaism, and Early Christianity (see above), 175–189. “Self-Differentiation among Christian Groups: The Gnostics and their Opponents.” In Origins to Constantine, vol. 1 of The Cambridge History of Christianity, 245–260. Ed. Margaret M. Mitchell and Frances M. Young. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006 (*). “Making Public the Monastic Life: Reading the Self in Evagrius Ponticus’ Talking Back.” In Religion and the Self in Antiquity (see above), 222–233 (*). “Entscheidend ist das ‘wir’, die Unterschiedung von ‘Theology’ und ‘Religious Studies’ in den USA: Chancen und Grenzen” (with J. Albert Harrill). Evangelische Aspekte 14 (2004): 28–32. “The Lady Appears: Materializations of ‘Woman’ in Early Monastic Literature.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 33 (2003): 387–402 (*). Reprinted in The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Asceticism, Gender, and Historiography, 25–39. Ed. Dale B. Martin and Patricia Cox Miller. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. “The Seed of Seth at the Flood: Biblical Interpretation and Gnostic Theological Reflection.” In Reading in Christian Communities: Essays on Interpretation in the Early Church (see above), 41–62 (*). “The Early Church in North America: Late Antiquity, Theory, and the History of Christianity.” Church History 71 (2002): 473–491 (*). “Ethiopian Demons: Male Sexuality, the Black-Skinned Other, and the Monastic Self.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 10 (2001): 501–535 (*). “Jewish Flesh and Christian Spirit in Athanasius of Alexandria.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 9 (2001): 453–481 (*). “Athanasius’ Epistula ad Epiphanium and Liturgical Reform in Alexandria.” Studia Patristica 36 (2001): 482–488 (*). “The Making of Monastic Demonology: Three Ascetic Teachers on Withdrawal and Resistance.” Church History 70 (2001): 19–48 (*). “The Body in Early Eastern Christian Sources.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 37 (2000): 119–134 (*). “The Egyptian Afterlife of Origenism: Conflicts over Embodiment in Coptic Sermons.” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 66 (2000): 277–293 (*). “Athanasius.” In The Early Christian World, 2.1102–27. Ed. Philip F. Esler. 2 vols. London/New York: Routledge, 2000. “Athanasius of Alexandria, Life of St. Antony of Egypt” (Introduction and Abridged Translation with Annotations). In Medieval Hagiography: An Anthology, 1–30. Ed. Thomas Head. New York/London: Garland, 2000. Reprinted in Christianity in Late Antiquity, 300 – 450 C.E.: A Reader, 368–377. Ed. Bart D. Ehrman and Andrew S. Jacobs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Vita: David Brakke, page 7

Reprinted in Reading the Middle Ages. Ed. Barbara Rosenwein. 2nd ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, in press (2013). “Parables and Plain Speech in the Fourth Gospel and the Apocryphon of James.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 7 (1999): 187–218 (*). “Cultural Studies. Ein neues Paradigma US-amerikanischer Exegese.” Zeitschrift für Neues Testament 2 (1998): 69–77 (*). “‘Outside the Places, Within the Truth’: Athanasius of Alexandria and the Localization of the Holy.” In Pilgrimage and Holy Space in Late Antique Egypt, 445–481. Ed. David Frankfurter. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 134. Leiden: Brill, 1998 (*). “Athanasius of Alexandria and the Cult of the Holy Dead.” Studia Patristica 32 (1997): 12–18 (*). “The Problematization of Nocturnal Emissions in Early Christian Syria, Egypt, and Gaul.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 3 (1995): 419–460 (*). Abridged and reprinted as “The Problematization of Nocturnal Emissions in the Early Christian Church” in Men and Masculinities in Christianity and Judaism: A Critical Reader, 336–354. Ed. Björn Krondorfer. London: SCM, 2009. “Canon Formation and Social Conflict in Fourth-Century Egypt: Athanasius of Alexandria’s Thirty-Ninth Festal Letter.” Harvard Theological Review 87 (1994): 395–419 (*). “The Authenticity of the Ascetic Athanasiana.” Orientalia 63 (1994): 17–56 (*). “The Greek and Syriac Versions of the Life of Antony.” Le Muséon 107 (1994): 29–53 (*). “Homily on St. Michael Archangel Attributed to John Chrysostom.” In Homiletica from the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1.47–55 (text edition); 2.48–56 (translation). Ed. Leo Depuydt. 2 vols. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 524– 525. Leuven: Peeters, 1991. “Shenute: On Cleaving to Profitable Things.” Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica 20 (1989): 115–141 (*).

Textbooks, Video Series, Encyclopedia Entries, and Others Understanding the New Testament. The Great Courses. Chantilly, Va.: The Teaching Company, 2019. Video/audio series of 24 lectures. The Apocryphal Jesus. The Great Courses. Chantilly, Va.: The Teaching Company, 2017. Video/audio series of 24 lectures. Gnosticism: From Nag Hammadi to the Gospel of Judas. The Great Courses. Video/audio series of 24 lectures. Chantilly, Va.: The Teaching Company, 2015 Introduction to Christianity. Co-author with Mary Jo Weaver. 4th ed. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2009. Vita: David Brakke, page 8

Co-Reviser with Mary Jo Weaver and Jason Bivins. Mary Jo Weaver, Introduction to Christianity. 3rd ed. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1997. “Hypatia.” In Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/cce/id/2159. “The Abundant, Never-Ending Christian Apocrypha, Which No List Can Contain.” Guest Post, Apocryphicity, November 28, 2017. http://www.apocryphicity.ca/2017/11/28/guest-post-david-brakke-abundant- never-ending-christian-apocrypha/. “Two Popes and a Primate: The Changing Face of Global Christianity.” In Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, on-line, to appear May 2013. “Alexander of Alexandria,” “Demetrios of Alexandria.” In Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 298–299, 2000. Ed. Roger Bagnall et al. Oxford: Blackwell, 2013. “Monasticism.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Ed. Michael Gagarin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. “Athanasius.” In Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, 79–80. Ed. Patte. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2010. “Christianity in the 2nd and 3rd Centuries.” Blackwell Religion and Theology Compass. Ed. Margaret R. Miles (an on-line resource). “Nag Hammadi.” In Encyclopedia of Religion, 6395–99. 2nd ed. Ed. Lindsay Jones. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005. “Controlling Religion: Christianity.” In Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide, 575–577. Ed. Iles Johnston. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. “Antony.” In Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, 304. Ed. G. W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, and Oleg Grabar. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. “Athanasius” (in relation to Augustine). In Saint Augustine through the Ages: An Encyclopedia, 77–79. Ed. Allan Fitzgerald. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1999.

Book Reviews Barbara Aland, Was Ist Gnosis? (Mohr Siebeck, 2009),in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 73 (2011): 898–899.

Kurt Aland† and Hans-Udo Rosenbaum, Repertorium der griechischen christlichen Papyri II: Kirchenväter-Papyri, Teil I: Beschreibungen (Walter de Gruyter, 1995), in Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 34 (1997): 145–146.

Roberto Alciati, ed., Norm and Exercise: Christian Asceticism between Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (Franz Steiner, 2018), in Antiquité Tardive 28 (2020): 375–376.

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Athanasius of Alexandria, et al., The Life of Antony: The Greek Life of Antony and the Coptic Life of Antony…, trans. Tim Vivian and Apostolos N. Athanassakis with Rowan A. Greer (Cistercian Publications, 2003), in Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality 4 (2004): 247–250.

Roger Bagnall, Egypt in Late Antiquity (Princeton Univ. Press, 1993), in Critical Review of Books in Religion 7 (1994): 296–298.

John Binns, Ascetics and Ambassadors of Christ: The Monasteries of Palestine, 314–631 (Oxford Univ. Press, 1994), in The American Historical Review 101 (1996): 823–824.

Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony and Lorenzo Perrone, eds., Between Personal and Institutional Religion: Self, Doctrine, and Practice in Late Antique Eastern Christianity (Brepols, 2013), in The Medieval Review 15.06.40.

Elizabeth S. Bolman, The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt (Yale Univ. Press, 2016), in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.01.54.

Peter Brown, Treasure in Heaven: The Holy Poor in Early Christianity (University of Virginia Press, 2016), in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 47 (2017): 398–399.

Virginia Burrus, Ancient Christian Ecopoetics: Cosmologies, Saints, Things (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 71 (2020): 372–74.

Virginia Burrus, The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), in History of Religions 45 (2006): 270–272. Catherine Conybeare, Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola (Oxford Univ. Press, 2001), in Church History 71 (2002): 642–643.

Hans-Joachim Cristea, Schenute von Atripe: Contra Origenistas (Mohr Siebeck 2011), in Theologische Literaturzeitung 137 (2012): 688–689.

Stephen J. Davis, Coptic Christology in Practice (Oxford Univ. Press, 2008), in Journal of Early Christian Studies 17 (2009): 155–156.

April D. DeConick, The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today (Columbia Univ. Press, 2016), in Journal of Religion 98 (2018): 268–269.

H. A. Drake, Constantine and the Bishops: The Politics of Intolerance (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2000), in Journal of Religion 81 (2001): 650–651. Ismo Dunderberg, Beyond Gnosticism: Myth, Lifestyle, and Society in the School of (Columbia Univ. Press, 2008), in Journal of Religion 89 (2009): 404–406.

Ismo Dunderberg, Gnostic Morality Revisited (Mohr Siebeck, 2015), in Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 20 (2016): 352–354.

Evagrius of Pontus, The Greek Ascetic Corpus, trans. Robert E. Sinkewicz (Oxford Univ. Press, 2003), in Journal of Early Christian Studies 12 (2004): 541–543.

Christopher A. Faraone, Ancient Greek Love Magic (Harvard Univ. Press, 1999), in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 31 (2000): 250–251.

Richard Wightman Fox, Jesus in America: Personal Savior, Cultural hero, National Obsession (HarperCollins, 2004), and Stephen Prothero, American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a Vita: David Brakke, page 10

National Icon (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), in The American Historical Review 110 (2005): 121–123.

Stephen Haar, Simon Magus: The First Gnostic? (de Gruyter, 2003), in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 66 (2004): 321–323.

Uta Heil, Athanasius von Alexandrien: De Sententia Dionysii (de Gruyter, 1999), in Journal of Early Christian Studies 8 (2000): 464–465.

Minna Heimola, Christian Identity in the (Finnish Exegetical Society, 2011), in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 75 (2013): 572–573.

Ronald E. Heine, Origen: Scholarship in the Service of the Church (Oxford Univ. Press, 2010), in Journal of Religion 93 (2013): 394–396.

Jennifer L. Hevelone-Harper, Disciples of the Desert: Monks, Laity, and Spiritual Authority in Sixth-Century Gaza (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2005), in Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality 6 (2006): 269–272.

Thomas L. Humphries, Jr., Ascetic Pneumatology from John Cassian to Gregory the Great (Oxford Univ. Press, 2013), in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 66 (2015): 164–165.

Dayna S. Kalleres, City of Demons: Violence, Ritual, and Christian Power in Late Antiquity (Univ. of California Press, 2015), in Journal of Early Christian Studies 26 (2018): 328–329.

Robert Knapp, The Dawn of Christianity: People and Gods in a Time of Magic and Miracles (Harvard Univ. Press, 2017), in The Historian 80 (2018): 608–609.

Lillian I. Larsen and Rubenson, eds., Monastic Education in Late Antiquity: The Transformation of Classical “Paideia” (Cambridge University Press, 2018), in Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 23 (2019) 360–364.

Bernadette McNary-Zak, Useful Servanthood: A Study of Spiritual Formation in the Writings of Abba Ammonas (Cistercian Publications, 2010), The Medieval Review 11.08.1.

J. E. Merdinger, Rome and the African Church in the Time of Augustine (Yale Univ. Press, 1997), in The American Historical Review 103 (1998): 1231.

Birger A. Pearson, Christianity and Gnosticism in Roman and Coptic Egypt (T & T Clark, 2004), in Journal of Religion 85 (2005): 497–498.

Jaroslav Pelikan, Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture (Yale Univ. Press, 1996), in Biography 21 (1998): 210–214.

Claudia Rapp, Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition (Univ. of California Press, 2005), in The American Historical Review 111 (2006): 246– 247.

Éric Rebillard, Christians and their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, North Africa, 200–450 CE (Cornell Univ. Press, 2012), in The American Historical Review 119 (2014): 1752–1753.

Antony D. Rich, Discernment in the Desert Fathers: “Diakrisis” in the Life and Thought of Early Egyptian Monasticism (Paternoster 2007), in The Way 48 (2009): 128–129.

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Herbert Schmid, Christen und Sethianer: Ein Beitrag zur Diskussion um den religionsgeschichtlichen und den kirchengeschichtlichen Begriff der Gnosis (Brill, 2018), in Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 22 (2018): 485–488.

Adam M. Schor, Theodoret’s People: Social Networks and Religious Conflict in Late Roman Syria (Univ. of California Press 2011), in Sehepunkte, www.sehepunkte.de/2012/03/19666.html.

Geoffrey S. Smith, Guilt by Association: Heresy Catalogues in Early Christianity (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015), in Journal of Religion 96 (2016): 425–426.

Eric Sorensen, Possession and Exorcism in the New Testament and Early Christianity (Mohr/Siebeck, 2002), in Journal of Religion 84 (2004): 450–451.

Janet E. Spittler, ed., The Narrative Self in Early Christianity: Essays in Honor of Judith Perkins (SBL Press, 2019), in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2020.04.20.

Christopher Stead, Doctrine and Philosophy in Early Christianity (Ashgate, 2000), in Journal of Early Christian Studies 10 (2002): 395–396.

Blossom Stefaniw, Christian Reading: Language, Ethics, and the Order of Things (Univ. of California Press, 2019), in Journal of Early Christian Studies, in press.

Alistair C. Stewart, The Gnomai of the Council of Nicaea (CC 0021): Critical text with Translation, Introduction and Commentary (Gorgias, 2015), in Journal of Theological Studies, n.s. 68 (2017): 365–367.

Columba Stewart, Cassian the Monk (Oxford Univ. Press, 1998), in Church History 68 (1999): 141–143.

Laurens E. Tacoma, Fragile Hierarchies: The Urban Elites of Third-Century Roman Egypt (Brill, 2006), in The American Historical Review 112 (2007): 622–623.

Einar Thomassen, ed., Canon and Canonicity: The Formation and Use of Scripture (Museum Tusculanum, 2010), Numen 58 (2011); 406–407.

Dennis E. Trout, Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems (Univ. of California Press, 1999), in Church History 71 (2002): 170–171.

John D. Turner and Ruth Majercik, eds., Gnosticism and Later Platonism: Themes, Figures, and Texts (Society of Biblical Literature, 2000), in Journal of Religion 82 (2002): 442–443.

Roelof van den Broek, Gnostic Religion in Antiquity (Cambridge Univ. Press 2013), in Journal of Religion 97 (2017): 147–148.

Roelof van den Broek and Cis van Heertum, eds., From Poimandres to Böhme: Gnosis, Hermetism and Christian Tradition (Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, 2000), in Journal of Early Christian Studies 10 (2002): 546–547.

Geza Vermes, Christian Beginnings: From Nazareth to Nicaea (Yale Univ. Press, 2012), in The Historian 76 (2014): 885–886.

Michael A. Williams, Rethinking “Gnosticism”: An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category (Princeton Univ. Press, 1996), in Church History 67 (1998): 119–121.

Vincent Wimbush and Richard Valantasis, eds., Asceticism (Oxford Univ. Press, 1995), in Church History 65 (1996): 786–788. Vita: David Brakke, page 12

Ewa Wipszycka, The Alexandrian Church: People and Institutions (Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 2015), in Church History 86 (2017): 198–199.

Frances Young, Biblical Exegesis and the Formation of Christian Culture (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997), in Journal of the American Academy of Religion 67 (1999): 722–726.

Book Notes: Church History (2003, 2014), Religious Studies Review (2001), Theological Studies (2010), Theology Today (2002), Journal of Ecclesiastical History (2014, 2017)

LECTURES, PAPERS, AND PRESENTATIONS SINCE 2011

Invited Lectures and Papers Since 2011 “The Gospel of Judas,” Ptermigan Mini-Lecture Series, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University, February 2021. “The Gospel of Judas and the Origins of the Gnostic Myth,” Neal A, Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, January 2021. “The Gospel of Judas: Fragments of an Anchor Yale Bible Volume,” Religions in Late Antiquity Workshop, Norwegian Institute in Athens, February 2020. Also Biblical and Early Christian Studies Research Seminar, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University, May 2020. “The New Testament and Other Books: Mapping Christian Literature in Late Antiquity,” University of Michigan, November 2019. “The Gnostic Origins of Christian Biblical Interpretation: From Gospel to Commentary,” Keynote Address, The Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Network, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 2017. Also Keynote Address, Rocky Mountains—Great Plains Regional Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature, March 2019. Four Conferences on Early Monasticism: Demons, Evagrius, and Shenoute, New Melleray Abbey, Peosta, Iowa, June 2017. “What Difference Does the Gospel of Judas Make?” The Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic Library: Its Impact on Patristic Studies, Second International Congress on Patristic Studies, San Juan, Argentina, March 2017. “Research and Publications in Egyptian Monasticism (2012–2016),” Eleventh International Congress of Coptic Studies, Claremont, California, July 2016. “From Eight Demons to Seven Deadly Sins: Evil Spirits and Sin in Early Christianity,” Department of Philosophy and Comparative Religion, Cleveland State University, April 2016. “Shenoute the Great (347 – 465) and the Invention of Early Christian Literature: Making an Author,” Department of Religion, Princeton University, March 2016. “Inventing Early Christian Literature in the Age of Lists (350–500),” Boston University and Harvard University, November 2015. Vita: David Brakke, page 13

“Making Shenoute an Author: Ancient and Modern Publications of the Discourses.” Seventeenth St. Shenouda-UCLA Conference of Coptic Studies, Los Angeles, July 2015. “The Relationship between the Monks of Kellia and the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church,” Seventh International Symposium of the St. Mark Foundation for Coptic History Studies: Christianity and Monasticism in Egypt from the North of Oxyhrynchus to the Mediterranean Sea, Dayr Mar Mena Monastery, Egypt, February 2015. “Making Books, Making an Author: The Codices and Volumes of Shenoute of Atripe’s Discourses,” Symposium: The Book Unbound, Williams College, October 2014. “The Gospel of Judas, ‘Gnostics,” and ‘Sethians’: An Emendation to My Argument in The Gnostics,” Westar Institute Christianity Seminar: Is “Gnosticism” a Viable Category for Re-writing the History of Early Christianity?, San Diego, November 2014. “The Gospel of Judas: The Beginning and End of Sethian Gnosticism,” Plenary Lecture, Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Chicago, May 2014. “The Gospel of Judas: Gnostic Truth and Apostolic Error in Early Christianity,” University of California San Diego, May 2014. "The Gospel of Judas and the End of Sethianism: Source Criticism, Text Groups, and Social-Historical Reconstruction,” Textual Unities, Yale University, October 2013. “The Problem of ‘Monastic Literature,’” Late Antiquity Made New: A Celebration of the Work of Elizabeth A. Clark, Center for Late Ancient Studies, Duke University, April 2013. “Beyond Orthodoxy vs. Heresy . . . But Not Totally: Alternative Visions of Early Christianity,” Keynote Address, Beyond Binaries: Toward a Continuum Model of Religious Normativity, Graduate Committee for the Study of Religion, University of Texas, March 2013. “How Jesus Could Have a Wife and Still Not Be Married: Gender, Cosmology, and Salvation in Early Christianity,” Investiture Lecture, The Ohio State University, December 2012. “Shenoute the Great (348–465): Monastic Authority and Lay Elites in Late Ancient Egypt,” Plenary Lecture, Translatio: Annual Conference of the Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Student Association, Ohio State University, October 2012. “The New Testament and the Ascetic Life in Evagrius of Pontus,” Asceticism and Exegesis in Early Christianity: Recourse to New Testament Texts in Discourses about Ascetic Practices and Lifestyle, University of Siegen, October 2011. Vita: David Brakke, page 14

“Why the Church Did Not Reject Gnosticism,” Blake Lecture in the History of Christianity, Virginia Commonwealth University, April 2011; Puff Memorial Lecture, Miami University of Ohio, April 2011; Center for Early Christian Studies, Catholic University of America, October 2011; Priest Lecture, Florida State University, January 2012; and Weltin Lecture in Early Christianity, Washington University of St. Louis, October 2012; Beattie Lecture, School of Theology, University of the South, March 2014. “Scriptural Practices in Early Christianity: Towards a New History of the Canon,” Department of Religious Studies Colloquium, Yale University, January 2011, Department of Religious Studies Colloquium, Stanford University, April 2011, and the History of Christianity Colloquium, Vanderbilt University, March 2011.

Contributed or Competitive Papers Since 2011 “Male Homoeroticism, Priestly Identity, and Visionary Judgment in the Gospel of Judas,” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Diego, November 2019. “‘In the Midst of the Children’: Finding Jesus in the Gospel of Judas,” Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego, November 2019. Presented also to the Early Christian Studies Workshop, University of Chicago, October 2019. “Cursing Monks: The Forms and Functions of Early Monastic Execrations,” Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies, University of Oxford, August 2019. Also at Curses in Context 4: Curse Tablets in the Wider Realm of Execrations, University of Chicago, October 2019. “Some Thoughts on Thought of Norea,” Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Network, Fordham University, June 2019. “Patterns (Tupoi) in Athanasius of Alexandria: Their Literary, Exegetical, and Ethical Functions,” International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Helsinki, August 2018. “Pseudonymity and the Layered Self in Gnostic Mysticism,” Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, November 2016. “The Layered Self: Pseudonymity and Praise in Three Tablets of Seth and Other Gnostic Writings,” Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Chicago, May 2016. “Materiality and Patristic Authorship: The Codices of Shenoute’s Discourses,” Seventeenth International Conference on Patristic Studies, University of Oxford, August 2015. “Shenoute and the Jews,” Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Rome, September 2012. “Visionary Experience and Textual Authority in the Works of Shenoute,” Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Chicago, May 2012. Vita: David Brakke, page 15

“Mystery, Secrecy, and the Ladder to Contemplation of the Trinity,” Sixteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies, University of Oxford, August 2011.

Other Events Since 2011 “Luther and the Humanities,” Remarks at the Installation of Darlene Brooks Hedstrom as Kenneth E. Wray Chair in the Humanities, Wittenberg University, February 2018. Panelist, Discussion of New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures by Tony Burke and Brent Landau, Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, November 2017. Respondent, “Religion and Sexuality Post-Obergefell,” Center for the Study of Religion, The Ohio State University, October 2016. Respondent, “Political Asceticism: Practices of Disobedience and Imagination,” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, November 2015. Respondent, “Inventing Christianity: Christianity in Egypt,” Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego, November 2014. Discussant, Magic and Mysticism in Indigenous Religious Traditions: Contested Terms, Material Objects, and Charismatic Figures, Center for the Study of Religion, The Ohio State University, February/March 2013. Panelist, Conversation on Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite by Charles Stang, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, October 2012. Respondent, Panel Discussion of The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity by David Brakke, Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Francisco, November 2011. Respondent, “The Material Imagination in Late Antique Christianity,” Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History, Boston, January 2011.

SELECT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE

Professional Associations American Academy of Religion American Society of Church History Association Internationale d’Études Patristiques / International Association of Patristic Studies International Association for Coptic Studies North American Patristics Society Society of Biblical Literature

Vita: David Brakke, page 16

Select Service to Professional Associations American Academy of Religion: Co-Founder and Co-Chair (1994–1997), Chair (1998–2001), Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity Group Juror, Descriptive/Analytical Category, Book Awards for Excellence (1999–2002) American Society of Church History: Midwest Regional Representative and Membership Committee (1998– 2001) International Association for Coptic Studies: President-Elect (2012–2016), President (2016–2022) Association Internationale d’Études Patristiques / International Association of Patristic Studies: Council Delegate (USA) (2015–2019) North American Patristics Society: Editor, Journal of Early Christian Studies (2005–2015) Co-Editor, Journal of Early Christian Studies (2004–2005) Advisory Board, Journal of Early Christian Studies (2004) Associate Editor, Christianity in Late Antiquity Monograph Series (2017– 2020) Member-at-Large, Board of Directors (2000–2002)

Society of Biblical Literature: Founder and Chair, Religion in Roman Egypt Consultation (2004–2006) Steering Committee, Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Section (2009–2011)

Select Service to the OSU Department of History Promotion and Tenure Subcommittee: Chair (2014–2015, 2017–2018), Member (2012–2013, 2013–2014, Spring 2016, 2016–2017) Chair’s Advisory Committee: Elected Member (2013–2014, 2014–2015, 2016– 2017) Subcommittees: Salary and Review (2013–2014), Workplace Climate (2014–2015, 2016–2017 [Chair]) Awards and Prizes Committee (2018–2019) Grievance Committee: Chair (2018–2019, 2020–2021) Undergraduate Teaching Committee (2020–2021) Chair, Self-Study Committee, Academic Program Review (2015–2016)

Select Service to Ohio State University University General Education Review Coordinating Committee (2017–2018) Vita: David Brakke, page 17

Center for the Study of Religion Associate Director (Spring 2014, 2014–2015) Oversight Committee (2013–2014, 2016–2019, 2020– ) Chair, Schottenstein Chair in Israel Studies Search Committee (2018–2019) Screening Committee, Search for Divisional Dean of Arts and Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences (2015)

Select Service to the IU Department of Religious Studies Department Chair (2006–2011) Director of Graduate Studies (2000–2002, 2003–2005) Graduate Studies Committee (1994–1995, 1997–1999, 2005–2006) Salary and Review Committee (1996–1997) Search Committees (Chair): American Religious History (2005–2006), South Asian Buddhism (2006–2007) Search Committees (Member): Ethics (1996), Rabbinic Judaism (1998–1999), Modern Western Religious Thought (2003–2004) Undergraduate Studies Committee (1993–94, 1995)

Select Service to Indiana University Campus General Education Committee, Arts and Humanities Subcommittee (2008–2011) Wells Scholars Program: read applications, interview finalists (1997–2001); resource person for freshman retreat (1997–2001) Medieval Studies Institute Executive Committee (1993–1995, 2000–2001) College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Task Force on General Education Requirements (2007–2008) External Review Committee for American Studies Program (2009) Phi Beta Kappa, Gamma of Indiana Chapter: President (2006–2007), Vice President (2005–06), Official Delegate to Triennial Council in Atlanta (2006) Moderator, Panel on “Religion and Sexuality: Bridging the Gap,” Sexploration Week, Health and Wellness Education, Health Center (2008) Faculty Consultant, The American Historical Review (2000–2005)

Other Select Professional Service Activities Board of Consultants, Journal of Religion (2014– ) Vita: David Brakke, page 18

Co-Editor, Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity (Book Series), Aarhus University and Peter Lang Press (2005–2015) Editorial Board, Gorgias Coptic Studies (2020– ) International Advisory Committee, Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies, University of Oxford, August 2019 Planning Committee, Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity XIV, Ohio State University (June 2021) Co-Organizer, Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity VIII: Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity, Indiana University (April 2009) Ph.D. dissertation external reader: Yale University Dept. of Religious Studies (1998, 2002, 2008, 2011, 2014), University of Oslo (2002), University of Bergen (2011), University of Toronto (2011)

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Doctoral Dissertations Directed (Indiana University) Ellen Muehlberger, “Angels in the Religious Imagination of Late Antiquity” (2008) (Professor of History, University of Michigan) Bradley K. Storin, “The Letters of Gregory of Nazianzus: Discourse and Community in Late Antique Epistolary Culture” (2012) (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Louisiana State University) Diane Fruchtman, “Living in a Martyrial World: Living Martyrs and the Creation of Martyrial Consciousness in the Late Antique Latin West” (2014) (Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Rutgers University) David Maldonado Rivera, “Encyclopedic Trends and the Making of Heresy in Late Ancient Christianity” (2017) (Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Kenyon College) Brian Alt, “Correspondences and Invocations: Sacred Materials, Divine Words, and Subtle Physiology in Iamblichus and Related Literature” (2020) Tola Rodrick, “Discourse about the Beginner: The Earliest Stages of Monastic Training in Late Ancient Egypt” (2021) Doctoral Dissertation Directed (Ohio State University) Michael Beshay, “The Virgin Mary in Ritual in Late Antique Egypt: Origins, Practice, and Legacy” (2020) (Instructor in Religion, Theology, and Spirituality, Convent and Stuart Hall Schools, San Francisco) Felege-Selam Yirga, “The Chronicle of John of Nikiu: Historical Writing in Post- Roman Egypt” (2020) (Assistant Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Vita: David Brakke, page 19

Numerous dissertation and qualifying exam committees

Courses Taught at Indiana University Undergraduate Only Introduction to the New Testament Images of Jesus in Western Culture (aka Jesus in Popular Culture) Majors Seminar in Religion: Religious Asceticism

Advanced Undergraduate/Graduate Paul and His Influence in Early Christianity Development of Jesus Traditions Christianity, 50–450 Gnostic Religion and Literature Early Christian Monasticism Women and Gender in Ancient Christianity Christianity and India Ancient Mediterranean Religions Elementary Coptic Elementary Syriac

Graduate Courses and Seminars Colloquium in Ancient Religions: Sacrifice Colloquium in Ancient Religions: Mysticism Religious Asceticism Augustine of Hippo Early Christian Thought Advanced Readings in Syriac Advanced Readings in Coptic: Sahidic Monastic Literature Advanced Readings in Coptic: Nag Hammadi Texts

Courses Taught at Ohio State University

Undergraduate Only Introduction to the Discipline of History Introduction to the History of Christianity Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the History of Christianity The Age of Reformation Readings Seminar in Late Antiquity: Early Christian Apocrypha

Advanced Undergraduate/Graduate History of Early Christianity Gnostics and Other Early Christian Heresies Theory and Method in the Study of Religion

Graduate Hagiography and History (Readings and Research Seminars) Vita: David Brakke, page 20

Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World (Research Seminar) Gnosticism and Manichaeism (Readings Seminar) Introductory Coptic

References available upon request.